The abbe had declared that themarplot must be frightened away, and yet he was sparing no pains to make the visit pleasant.
Then the visit of the Marplot Marechale had so altered the complexion of affairs, and swallowed precious time.
The character of Marplot as comic butt resembles that of Pug.
Miranda in the presence of her guardian sends a message by Marplot not to saunter at the garden gate about eight o’clock as he has been accustomed to do, thus making an assignation with him (compare DA.
Marplot is introduced by Mrs. Centlivre in two comedies, The Busy Body and Marplot in Lisbon.
A restless movement from Laurie suggested that his chair was not easy, or that he did not like the plan, and made the old man add hastily, "I don't mean to be a marplot or a burden.
Come, Demi," and Meg led her son away, feeling a strong desire to spank the little marplot who hopped beside her, laboring under the delusion that the bribe was to be administered as soon as they reached the nursery.
Oh my heart; why was I doomed to be theMarplot of his life?
It came to her with a dull sense of conviction that this thing was not to be; that she was never to install St. Udo Brand within his rights; that she was truly the Marplot who had ruined him.
I must be a Marplot no more," whispered Margaret to her humble friend, with a weary sigh.
Come, Demi;" and Meg led her son away, feeling a strong desire to spank the little marplot who hopped beside her, laboring under the delusion that the bribe was to be administered as soon as they reached the nursery.
That marplot of a rebel general has schemed a new method of troubling us," he grumbled angrily a week later.
A word with you ere Grayson and Boudinot--who have gone to look at that marplot house of Cliveden which frustrated all our hopes four months since--return and interrupt us.
This same political general was a brave man--as brave as any negro private whom his fellow-member in the convention butchered at Fort Pillow; but he was the marplot of Grant's Vicksburg campaign.
For my own part, I am thankful that he was so; for I am convinced that any man with a genius for war inferior to that of the illustrious soldier would have been a marplot if he had meddled with the matter.
I preferred that my men should think I had captured a marplot who had ruined their plans.
You deserve death for the marplot that you are, but I will release you if you will restore the papers.
If the muse of history had not intervened as Marplot at this moment, there is no telling which way the scale would have turned, for it was nicely balanced.
Well, that Marplot was well out of the road, and the abbe was pleased to be quit of so deceitful a coadjutor.
Probably the disturbing, distracting vein of unconquerable levity so conspicuous in the character of his father, is the marplot of the son's career, too.
Therefore the Prince of Wales must be the very Marplot or L'Etourdi of princes, if he cannot contrive to make himself endurable to a people who will bear so much rather than be at the trouble of a change.
As has been remarked before, it is no longer a gentlemen's war, and the gentleman, as such, is no better than a marplotin the game as it is played.
A marplot and mischief-maker from beginning to end, Charles Lee never failed to work injury to whichever party his selfish vanity or craven fear inclined him for the moment to serve.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marplot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
